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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
A Chance for Health

Is afforded those fast sinking into a condition
of hopeless debility. The means are at hand.
In the form of genial medicinal cordial, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters embodies the COM
bined qualities of q blood fertilizer and de-
purent, a tonic and an Alternative. While 1t
promotes digestion and assimilation, and
stimulates appetite, has the further effect of
purifying the life current and strengthening
the nervous system. AS the blood grows
richer and purer by Its use, they who resort TO
this sterling medicinal agent, acquire not
only vigor, but bodily substance. A healthful
change in the secretions is effected by 1t. and
that sure and rapid physical decay, which a
chronic obstruction of the functions of the
system produce, is arrested. The prime causes
of disease being removed, health is speedily
renovated and vigor restored.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
INGALLS, SPOKE GODS TRUTH.

Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas, spoke
for America-all that is national,
gallant and manly in the republic
in Washington on Monday, when
debating the Edmunds' reprisal bill
in regard to Canadian outrages on
American fishermen. He did not
hit England over Canada's shoulder,
but he hitlJohn Bull himself sting
ing blow:lon the mouth, for which
the whole country will thank him.
He let the cub go, but he did "eyer-
lastingly whale " the greedy old dam
who is at the bottom of all the devil.
ment that has:made our citizens un-
comfortable for the last few years
all along the Bluenose border. We
regret to observe that some of our
daily contemporaries-even those
who profess to be extremely Repub-
lican-fnd fault with Senator ingalls,
because of his well earned indict-
ment of England. We cannot I'M
derstand why so many Americans
are touchy on that subject. What
is England, or her opinion, to any
well organized American? What OBJ
legation is he under to her? What
obligation has she laid this country
under, unless the obligation of dis
trust and hatred 7 Why do so many
Americans find it necessary to
"iumpD upon statesmen who de-
clare the national sentiment as
bravely as ingalls, has done9 If it
were not for such men as he, our
country would soon become the butt
of European DULLES, who, because
they have enjoyed disgraceful inn
munity for so long time, think it
safe to heap outrage after outrage
upon our citizens and our flag. For
our own part, we heartily thank
Senator ingalls, for his manly and
truthful speech. He has knocked
the wind out of the hunkeys, and
there is tonic in his utterances that
smacks OF Bunker Hill, Saratoga
and New Orleans.-John r. Finerty.
Mr.. Ingalls, understood the
Senator to say it. England has al
ways been ruffian, a coward, and
bully among the nations of the
earth-insolent to the weak, tyrani-
cal to the feeble, and cringing and
obsequious to the strong. Her history
for centuries has been a record Of
crime against the human race-in
Ireland, in Scotland, in Wales,
against the Roman Catholics, against
the Beers of South Africa, against
the Hindoos and the Chinese.
Wherever there has been feeble, a
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
The English Language.

The English language, which is now
spoken by nearly 100,000,000 of the
earth's inhabitants, is in its vocabulary
one of the most heterogeneous that ever
existed. There is, perhaps, no language
SO full of words, evidently derived from
the most distant sources, as English.
Every country of the globe seems to
have brought some of its verbal manu-
features to the intellectual market of
England; Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Celtic,
Saxon, Danish, French, Spanish, Italian,
German-nay, even Hindustani, Malay,
and Chinese words are mixed together in
the English dictionary. Chicago Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
How Men Die I'm Battle.

When we got into the Brock Road in
trenchments, man a few files to my
left dropped dead, shot just above the
right eye. He did not groan, or sigh, or
make the slightest physical movement,
except that his chest heaved few times
The life went out of his face instantly,
leaving it without particle of express
sion. 1t was plastic, and as the facial
muscles contracted it took many shapes.
When this mans body became cold, and
his face hardened, it was horribly dis
torted, as though he had suffered in
tensely. Any person who had not seen
him killed would have said that he had
endured supreme agony before death re-
leased him. A few minutes after he fell
another man, little farther to the left,
fell with apparently precisely similar
wound. He was Strengthened out and
lived for over an hour. He did not speak.
Simply lay on his back, and his broad
chest rose and fell, slowly at first, and
then faster and faster, and more and
more feeble until he was dead. And his
face hardened, and it was almost terTify-
ing in its painful distortion.
I have seen dead soldiers faces which
were wreathed in smiles, and heard their
comrades say that they had died happy.
do not believe that the face of a dead
soldier, lying on battlefield, ever truth
fully indicates the mental Or physica,
anguish or peacefulness of mind which he
suffered or enjoyed before his death. The
face is plastic after death, and as the
facial muscles cool and contract they
draw the face into many shapes. Some
times the dead smile, again, they stare
with CLASSY eyes, and lolling tongues and
dreadfully distorted visages at you. 1t
goes for nothing. One death was as
painless as the other. Wilkeson's
"Recollections of Private"
Parting Gold and Silver.
The destinies of the assay Office are pre-
sided over by Andrew Mason, whose
official title is superintendent of the
United States assay Office at New York. +"
The story of the assay Office as told by
him is practically as follows;
The office is intended to accommodate
the bullion interests of New York, and it
is used by brokers, bankers, merchants
and jewelers.. Any one having gold or
silver, which when assayed will amount
to 800 or over, may deposit it. He viii
receive its value in coin or in fine gold;
or, if it is silver, in fine silver bars. The
gold and silver bars have their weight
stamped upon them, and the former
bears, under the government seal, the
value in gold coin as WELL The use of
these bars has saved the government a
heavy expense, as they have been largely
employed in the arts and manufactures,
thus preventing the melting down of
coin. Mr.. Mason thinks that $12, :
900 in coin is thus saved annually. To
determine just how an exchange shall be
made chip is taken from the metal
brought to be assayed, and it is melted
by itself and poured into moulds. These
small samples are assayed, and by calcu-
lation the proportion of pure metal is IN
dicated. Of course, deductions must be
made for parting, refining, ETC.; but the
net result is paid to the depositor. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
ABUSES in THE SENATE.

Ireland will have lost one good
and gallant friend in the United
States Senate when the time OF the
Hon. II. ii. Riddleberger, of Va, .x-
pires next March. This brave man,
who has nought to gain and all to
lose by the boldness of his opinions
on the Irish question, has provoked
the mortal enmity of the Anglo mani
acs of this country by refusing to DO
Mortified because some desperate
Irishmen shook up London a few
times with homeopathic explosives.
He has been subjected to the foulest
kind of abuse by many American
and by most English papers. He
has been called ga fireband" and a
"crank,r just as Wendell Phillips
was called fanatic and o mailman
because he was bold advocate OF
negro emancipation, when it needed
courage, both moral and physical, to
be the friend of that long defeated
cause. Senator Riddleberger, as
might be expected from his record,
is entirely opposed to the extradi-
ton treaty with England, now being
considered by the Senate. He par
ticularly objects to that section OF it
which deals with violent political of
lenses. Old Iceberg Edmunds, OF
Vermont, is a great advocate Of the
treaty. So is Grandfather Evarts
of New York. Riddleberger gored
both their sides until they hOwled
with rage andpain. Evarts remind
ed the Senate-it was in executive
session, which is un-American and
dangerous to public liberty-that
the treaty would enable the execu-
tive to extradite "the Doodle alder
men, Riddleberger Immediately
replied-"I would not surrender one
decent Irisbman who had commit
ted political offense against Eng
land for hundred of your Doodle
Aldermen Edmunds, IN his cold
sneering way said" No decent
Irishmen uses dynamite" Riddle
berger answered." There is a dit
ference of opinion as to that. The
crimes of England against the Irish
justify any kind Of retaliation on
their part"
The popular mind in America is
growing enlightened on the signifi.
canoe of those secret sessions, which
remind one of the customs Of the mid
die ages. There will soon be a gen.
eral demand for their abolition, and
there ought to be. Another most
important, and most needed, reform
would be the election of senators by
the popular vote of their respective
States, as in the case OF congress
men at large. BY adopting this sys-
TEN the danger OF obtaining seats
by means of corruption would be
greatly diminished, if not entirely
done away with. There are too
many rich men in the Senate.
There is too much money and too
little brains. Senator Riddleberger
says that the wealthy Senators look
down upon their poorer confreres,
and that a man Of even moderate
means cannot begin to keep up with
the extravagant demands of official
society" Surely this is a bad
state OF affairs in republic. The
sooner it is ended the better. Eng
land never needed the Reform bill
OF 1882 so badly as the United States
needs one at the present time
Fiaerty's Citizen.
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rT5ry pPATRTE NANCE AND
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
Usefulness of Asphalt Paper.

The usefulness Of asphalt paper appears
to be demonstrated by its constantly null
tiplying applications. In thin sheets it is
found admirably adapted for wrapping
silks or other fabrics that need protec-
ton from moisture; also for lining cases,
packing boxes for pianos, ETC., and,
rolled up into pipes, for conveying water.
Asphalt tubes are but one-fifth of the
weight of iron, will not rust, and are
quite tough and strong; they are simply
sheets of paper of a peculiar quality
dipped in melted asphalt, and then rolled
upon a cylinder. -New York Sun.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
The Climbers of Mont Blanc.

Although Mont Blanc has for a quar-
ter of a century been French sod, its
climbers have not usually shown an
annual majority of Frenchmen; yet this
has been the case this year. The ascent
was made by thirty-one French, three
of them ladies; twenty-five English, one
lady; ten Americans; seven Swiss, two
ladies; six Germans; two Russians; two
Swedes, one Italian, and one Belgian.
Total. eight-fve. London Ti-.s.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
Two Deadly Poisons.

Worry and modification are evidently
deadly poisons to the blood. The cancer
in John Roach's mouth and the one in
Grants throat owed undoubtedly their
origin to mental troubles. Gen. Logan
would without doubt have been alive to-
day if it had not been for the great
mental strain he has gone through in late
years, to which was added tho burden of
financial embarrassment C. Craw-
ford in New York World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12

A new source of income has just been
developed for the penny-a-liner. This is
neither more nor less than supplying
fashionable ambition with magazine mat
ter which the would-be author is too lazy
or too incompetent to write herself. In
this way those who need the real pay for
their labors will be benefited, and those
who merely desire to shine as Literary"
beings win have their vanity fully salts
fied-Boston Herald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
STRIVING
/ started on Q lonely road,

Istarted on q lonely road,
A few companions with me went,
Some fell behind, some forward strobe,
But all on one high purpose bent;
To live for Nature, finding truth
In beauty and the shrines of art;
To consecrate our joyous youth
To aims outside the common mart.
turned aside and fingered long
To pluck rose, to hear a bird,
To muse, while listening to the song
OF brooks through leafy coverts heard:
To live in thoughts that brought no fame
Or guerdon from the thoughtless crowd
To toll for ends that could not claim
The worlds applauses coarse and loud.
But still, though oft bind my sheaf
In fields my comrades have not known
Though art is long and life is brief,
And youth has now forever flown;
would not lose the raptures sweet,
Nor scorn the toll of earlier years;
Still would climb with eager feet,
Though towering height on height appears
Cranch's Ariel and Caliban."
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
THE OLD FAMILY GROCERY
A GREAT DISCOVERY!
HOLDSTEIN's ARoMANNA !

The only sure cure for Dyspepsia, and
all Kidney, Liver, Blood, and Skin Dis
eases. Is warranted not only to relieve
but to cure the worst cases of Dyspepsia,
and is a panacea for all diseases arising
from a disordered condition of the Liver
or Stomach, such as Indigestion, Bilious
ness, Sick Headache, Distress after eat
ing, weakness of Kidney or Bladders,
call at A. NJ. GILBERT'S
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and rs. Also, all kinds of Drugs, Pat
ent Medicines, and Toilet and Fancy ar
ticles, and everything kept in a first
class drug store. jan8S
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
Only One Lung.

A case was lately reported to the New
York Pathological society of a negro
child, which lived but two.months, with
only one lung-the left, the other being
rudimentary and never inflated. The
heart had My one auricle and one ven.
tricle-both the left.-Arkansaw Tray-
eler
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
The Practice of Tea Drinking.

DIR. James Davis states in The Thera-
peutic Gazette that the Druidic college
of the Twelfth century considered tannin
the most potent of all the products of ma
ture in producing sterility, and the tea
drinking, as practiced by the public, I'M
doubtedly acts in the same direction.
Kansas City Times
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
A Curinns Mountain.

Prospectors for gold in Calaveras
county, Cal, have discovered curious
mountain. Its substance was found to be
various varieties of ochre. The find was
a veritable mountain of paint, containing
all the primary colors with all their
various shades. Chicago Herald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
RuekIen,s Arniea salue

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price 25c per
box. For sale by E. G. Williams & Bro
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
Beef Tea Hurtful.

Fothergill stated some time ago that
beef tea is rather a stimulant than
nourishment, and now an article appears
in The Nineteenth Century showing that
it powerfully retards digestion. This
action is said 30 be due to the organic
acids contained in it.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
A Falcons Flight.

Birds of prey fly SO swiftly and for
such a length of time that falcon once
lost in the forest of Fontainebleau, in the
centre of France, was found the follow
day at Malta, more than thousand miles
distant. Boston Budget.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12
Pyramids Of Egrpt.

Maspera, the Egyptologist, says it is
nonsense to claim that the pyramids of
Egypt, were long in construction. Three
or four years, he believes, sufficed for
the building of the highest of them.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12

The dead body of Alfred Blizzard,
a farmer, was found in Greenville
Greek, Ohio, terribly mutilated. 1t
is supposed he was murdered fol-
money or killed in house of i'll
renute.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12

ITCH. PRAIRIE NANCE, AND
SCRATCHES OF every kind cured in 30
Minutes by WOOLFORD'S SANITARY
LOTION. Use no other. This never
fails. Sold by JOHN LEE FOUT, Drug
gist, Martinsburg. mrc7
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12

A slight wave of earthquake pass
ed over Central and Southern Hin
OILS and Indiana Sunday.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-02-12

FITS: All Fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first
davis use. Marvellous cures. Treatise
and $500 trial bottle free to Fit cases.
Send to DIR. Kline, 931 Arch St. Phila. Pa.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
. Capable African Potentate.

Tippoo Tip, the nomadic African potentate,
seems to be a man of business quite capable
of making his way in the world. With a
large band of armed Arabs he meets well
equipped exploring expedition and informs
the leader that be is prepared either TO fight
or to be employed. The result is that he is
invariably employed, and doubtless gets a
good salary for his services. Henry NJ. Stan
lev acted with his usual sagacity in choosing
to employ Tippco rather than fight him.
The explorer was wise, also, in honoring
the swarthy chieftain with titular dignity
and making him governor general of Stanley
Falls without first putting him through the
ordeal of competitive examination. Tippoo
was strongly Endorsed by 10, coo armed follow
ers and was appointed without formality or
DELAY. 1t is needless 10 add that he IS in con-
dition to indulge freely in offensive partisan
ship without fear of losing his official head.
The powerful help Of Governor General Tip
will enable Mr.. Stanley TO march through the
African wilderness without serious interior
ence from wild and hostile tribes.-New
York World
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
Senator Stanford's Wife.

1t seems Mrs. Stanford will never be great
society woman, although this winter, for the
first time since their sons death, she has
come out of retirement and has also enter
tanned some. But she can't help having her
s,perb diamonds remarked on and her
gorgeous gems observed. She still wears a
kind of half mourning-the kind which ad-
mits of lace and diamonds-and she is dig
nified and fine looking woman Both she and
Senator Stanford have life work in per-
petuating the memory of their son In way
to benefit other peoples sons-and Mrs. Stan
ford says she is too deeply interested in that
TO give a great deal of time to society. Bat
Washington is such a fascinating kind OF
place that she viii be just like everybody eiss
give great deal more time to it and go
out vastly MOI than she expects.-New YORK
Mail and Express.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
aernhardt,s Concenial Friends.

Bernhardt is very independent in her
choice of acquaintance. She objects de-
cidedly TO meeting people who do not in
terest her, or who do not appeal in some
way TO her feelings. An intimate of the
great actress once asked if he might bring
a friend of his 10 see her, ard added, ''He
is q great admirer of YOU" SIS he SYM
pathetic." asked Rernhardt quickly,
where most women would have said: SIS
be respectableF' and then she continued:
81 don't care to know persons who are
unsympathetic." This explains, perhaps,
why Sarah Bernhardt is always so taika-
tive, cordial and sunny at her receptions;
she feels that she is surrounded by congo
NAL friends: she is sure that no cold bores
have strayed into her drawing room
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
HARDY SOLOMON { SONS
NOTICE 10 STRANGERS AND N0N-REsIDENTS.

If strangers who visit Wichita and feel
an interest IN its future will call at the office
Of Hardy Solomon & Sons, s5I + Douglas
avenue, and register their name and place of
residence they will be furnished thereafter, by
mail, free OF charge, with all important matter
pertaining to the welfare of this city. We
will also be pleased to furnish .non-residents
with any information they may wish in regard
to our city and will if they send us their
names and address from time to time send
them copies of our live daily papers free of
charge We buy and sell real estate Tor nom
residents ard can refer to persons IN any
state in the union to whom we have sold
Wichita real estate and for whom we have
made money We also refer to the Wichita
National Bank or any of the daily papers
Wichita
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
A Lady Rai.~oad Stenographer Talk.

A Lady haisrOad SteuographSr iaikS-
have often thought that the humdrum life
of a stenographer had n tendency to break
down and eventually drive out altogether the
imaginative and poetical in ones nature and
make life practical in all its details, The
murmurings of pcesy on moonlight, yiolets,
memories and hope, CRATE harshly against the
whisperings of the chief clerk on subject of
drain tile and the tariff rate on wheat in car
loads, with the result of giving the poem a
dry flavor, savoring of owners risk with
rebate. Leisure hours cannot be devoted to
poetry. because thought must be concentrated
upon rate quotations, billing directions, I'M
stamped tickets, while ones dreams are flied
not with the beautiful, but with mocking
ghosts Of rates, tariffs and waybilS.
Inspiration may come at times, but so GER
tainly will also come the rate clerk with the
request TO make a photograph copy of a lot of
per cent sheets, dreadful things with strings
of figures, not nice. even figures, but with
lots of fractions to them which must not be
mixed UP with the various other per cents.
Most of my working hours are spent III a rail-
road office. and have almost given up my
poetical dreams 10 look after shipments of
water pipes, stove castings, potatoes butter,
furniture, hams, hides, stoves, oil cakes,
lumber, beer, eggs, hive stock, patent medi-
cine etc-Globe- Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21

The JcOhNAtltSI FAMILY.
"What family have you?"
81 have too children and two grandchildren.
They are strewn along from four weeks old
up to twenty years. Nobody loses time"
"They report that you have put up quite a
settlement at GaplandY'
II have a stone library there with two bed
rooms over it; a stone and brick Dutch villa
of seven gables, nine rooms and Washing
ton Irving porch and stone dining lodge of
four rooms These united buildings are 155
feet long There are also a stable and tenant
house of eighty-five feet and lattice house,
which, with two log houses, make three good
studios for artist friends, all with the cold
north light Then l have two summer houses,
a windmill, two small stables, All ice house,
chicken house and Dutch oven. 1t is like the
boys rendering of how the leopard could
change his spots: IF he don't like this spot,
he can go and lie down i'll yon one / have
planted 200 apple trees, 600 grape vines and
100 miscellaneous trees, and have nine acres
in cultivation and five of woods, and have
built 5000 feet of stone wall. If the Sixth
army corps celebrates the twenty-ffth ami
versary of the battle of Champions Gap they
will find the place looking very different from
1862"
ITO what quality do You attribute your
getting onF'
Il suppose to activity of mind and curiosity
about the world | have written for myself
quite as much as for the information of
others"
do you regret not having founded some
newspaper"
at might have saved me much labor in the
present, but could hardly have got me as
much independence. The tendency of a mer-
camille interest i'll a newspaper is to take ones
aggresSiveneSs away. Besides, the weight Of
property responsibility would draw down any
free winged spirit like kite trying to carry
fish took from Shakespeare my cobeep-
ton of my business, where Ariel says:
Il will be correspondent to command,
And do your spriting gently
Washington Star Interview.